Test Equipment: MPEG-2 Transport Stream Analyzers with DVB ASI QAM DVB-H Inputs

Real Time SMPTE 310M Analyzer Kit Consisting of an ATSC Master™ II FD PCIe Card and a Copy of COOL.STF.com’s TS Reader™ Transport Stream Analyzer/ Decoder/Player...  This product is enabled via a DVEO software patch to the TS Reader  application so that it works with SMPTE 310M streams. We have several customers who are using this to monitor the stream just before it reaches their transmitter.

ATSC (SMPTE 310M), PCI 2.2 Interface with A or B Selectable Inputs, Dual Mirrored Outputs, Accurate Clock, Internal Serial Numbers, PID Filtering, Snoop and Watchdog Functions, Internal Loopback, External Loop Through, and GPIO Triggers.

Small, Hand Held, Portable, Real Time, Transport Stream Analyzer with internet based user Interface and DVB ASI and DVB C inputs. Provides real time data analysis of a single 1- 100 Mbps live stream via a browser interface.

Standard Features:

• Windows API and Linux SDK
• 33/66 MHz 32 bit universal PCI interface
• Two SMPTE 310M Inputs -- Primary BNC and optional Secondary via header
• Two buffered SMPTE 310M outputs
• Software control of primary or secondary input source selection
• Optional mechanical relay bypass on power failure
• Software controlled firmware loop-back bypasses the primary input to both outputs
• “Snoop” function for reading input data while in firmware bypass
• On-board circuitry to monitor transport stream quality
• Control Interface port
• 6 general purpose optically isolated inputs
• Status output for firmware loop-back
• Rx and Tx status indicators via LEDs
• External override input for the bypass relay
• Software readable, unique serial number on each board
• Field upgradeable firmware
• Software selectable transmit clock source
• External clock input, 38 MHz PECL signal

Standard Features:

• Real-time monitoring and analyzing on Transport Stream
• Program bandwidth display
• Detailed Offline analysis on Transport Stream file
• Recording Transport Stream to hard disk (support ASI signal or RF signal)
• Transport Stream file playback via ASI interface
• Recording mode: synchronous, original and PID selected (support 100 PIDs at most)
• Measuring RF signal parameters (support DVB-C or DVB-S or DVB-T)
• Analysis on data broadcast (support Data Carousel and Object Carousel)
• Video and Audio decoding

• DVB ASI with loopthrough via BNC connector, 270 Mbps bit rate
• 1 DVB -C RF input with loopthrough
• Up to 100 Mbps ASI payload bit rate
• Support 188/204 bytes packet length
  

Command interface:

• 1 RJ45 port, 100 Base-T
• Up to 50 Mbps payload data rate
  

Serial interface:

• 1 RS232 serial port
  

GUI screen shots

Small Self Powered MPEG-2 and H.264 standards compliant Real Time Transport Stream analyzer with full ETSI 290 compliance including comprehensive jitter analyzer that is cross tested to other well known brands in the industry. Includes TS capture capability and software to view decoded TS on computer screen. It is the ideal tool to accompany a laptop for real world Broadcast, R&D, or demo type environments. Now Shipping with Full ATSC and DVB table parsing capability.

Professional Self Powered Clear Channel QAM and DVB-C RF and Transport Stream signal Analysis Tool for Analyzing, Storing, and Viewing QAM and DVB-C Modulated (RF) MPEG-2 transport streams using any PC with a USB-2 interface. Comes set up for North American Clear Channel QAM (Annex B) and DVB-C. Equipped with loop through RF connectors feeding internal tuner. Ideal for field or head end RF analysis and capture of faulty QAM signals onto a laptop and determination of parameters like missing constellations, MER, EVM, or missing PIDs along with typical MPEG-2 TS bouquet parsing. Also will continuously forward selected Transport Streams to your office via built in IP encapsulator via the laptop's IP port. This can be a long term data logger...

A real time, USB interfaced, self powered, DVB-T+H transport stream analyzer with comprehensive automatic analysis of different services, PIDS, bursts, structures, on/off times, bandwidth utilization, transport layers, delta T jitter, and other critical DVB-T+H parameters for use in Field and Lab applications. Includes ability to store TS on your HD for later analysis.

Standard Features:

• RF Signal Quality Analyzer
• Real Time MPEG-2 Transport Stream Analyzer
• Transport Stream Capture and Viewer
• 2-in-1 product: RF + Baseband
• 1 RF input for Digital Cable (QAM Annex A, B, C Capable)
• 1 DVB-ASI input
• Includes Control and Analysis Software
• RF Analysis and Lock on a Digital Cable Channel  
• Cable RF Front End (QAM Annex A, B, C Capable)
• RF Analysis and Lock on a Digital Cable Channel
• DiviCatch real-time MPEG-2 or H.264 TS Capturing features -- scheduled recording capacity, multi-files/circular recording, and TS packets timestamping
• Support for HD and SD streams
• TS over IP streamer -- TS over UDP, Unicast or Multicast
• Command Line Package for Automated Testing
• Robust metallic housing, USB self-powered
• Pocket sized -- 5.3" x 2.42" x 1.06" deep (134.7 mm x 61.45 mm x 27 mm deep)

Applications:

• Digital Cable broadcast test and monitoring
• RF reception quality measurement
• Ideally suited to head end or field testing

Standard Features:

• DVB-H and DVB-T real-time RF and TS analyzer
• DVB-T & DVB-H RF Front End
• RF Analysis
• DVB-H real-time analyzer
• Burst by burst MPE, FEC, timing information display
• Delta-t jitter analysis, INT table real-time parsing
• MPEG-2 TS real-time analyzer
• Services, PIDs, PSI/SI Tables, ETR290, events logging
• MPEG-2 or H.264 services decoding and display
• Also inherits from DiviCatch real-time MPEG-2 or H.264 TS Capturing and Recording features
• Compatible with HD or SD streams
• MPEG-2 TS over IP
• External GPS receiver for measurement surveys (optional)
• Command Line Package for Automated Testing
• Robust metallic housing, USB self-powered

Applications:

• Digital Cable broadcast test and monitoring
• RF reception quality measurement
• Ideally suited to head end or field testing

Screen shots of User Interface

MPEG-2 or H.264 Transport Stream Playback and Capture Application with DVB ASI In and Out for continuous playback and/or capture of selected (by PIDs) Transport Streams from a "bouquet" by time or by MB. (Use with DVB Master FD to "build your own" T-Streamer ASI.) Includes a simple TS analyzer that recognizes SI and PSIP tables, a software based TS viewer (VLC), and miscellaneous transport streams for test purposes only. (Custom TS available.) Now includes an advanced Playback Scheduler for Day, Week, Month or Year, and a simple web interface for remote control.

One license per machine no matter how many instances are running.

This product was formerly known as Disk Streamer.

Standard Features:

• Capture and playback of HD, MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10) streams
• Capture and playback of transport streams via our DVB-ASI cards
• Supports capture and playback of transport streams with variable bit rate (VBR)
• Advanced playback Scheduler for Day, Week, Month or Year
• Filter the captured transport streams by PIDs
• Plays and Captures TS from all well known Video Encoders, Decoders, and Servers including Harmonic®, Tandberg®, Omneon®, Tektronix®, Radyne®, Big Band®, Seachange®, Scopus®, and many others
• Playback/capture rates up to 213 Mbps with fast SATA array hard drives
• Plays back a sequence of transport streams
• Play order GUI allows the order of file playout to be edited
• Input TS file via CD, DVD, USB Drive, Ethernet or input video stream via DVB-ASI
• Output TS file via CD, DVD, USB Drive, Ethernet or output video stream via DVB-ASI
• Includes automatic TS analysis utility with PID and PCR clock info. (Needs CBR for best result)
• Automatically uses the TS PCR info to calculate proper transport stream rate for capture and playback
• Selectable 188/204 packet size with auto conversion
• Continuous play or single play modes
• Buffer Overrun or Underrun warnings
• Remote management via Web interface
• Option: custom transport streams can be provided
  

• Playlist Support
  

Applications:

• Capture or playback transport streams for testing
• Record and analyze transport streams
• Development labs, manufacturing shop floors, and trade shows – to capture and playback, or just continuously playback transport streams in real time
• Analyze and preview transport streams
• Program scheduler for TV stations
• Record transport streams of required data size
  

Main GUI (click to enlarge)

Analyzer Menu (click to enlarge)

Scheduler (click to enlarge)

Includes VLC application